Sunday, 20 November 2011

Cinderella Cup 2011, danceschool Ekkart in Mortsel (Antwerpen)

The Cinderella Cup in Antwerp is always a very nice event with a good Professional Ballroom Competiton. This year it was organised by the BEL-AL (the Belgian Amateur League) and they had many medalist classes participating (Bronz, Silver, Gold, in standard and latin and different age categories). They also organised a Swing, Salsa and Argentinian Tango competition. The evening was a success with many participants.

We started in the Amateur open to world Standard for the first time. It was difficult for us to dance soo late in the evening together with the Professionals around 23:00. Our first round was not so good, we had problems with the size of the floor and Filip was nerveus. The second round was a lot better and we were satisfied with the improvement. In the end we reached place 3 after a Russian couple that was unbeatable. The Belgian couples Verlinden-Colebuders also beat us but we don’t have the detailed markings of the judges yet. We hope it was close.

Our teachers Herman and Michele Lak also participated in the Professional competition and became 2nd. It was so close with the Italian couple who won that one marking more out of 5 judges in the Vienese Waltz would have been enough for them to win the competion. A bit unlucky. We always enjoy it to see them dance. We were really impressed with the performance of Dennis Voermans and Samantha Kolijn who had such a good floor presence and also with Peter Ekkart and Ellen Ekkart who improved a lot during the last year.

Congratulations - I'm especially awed since I have no sense of rhythm and can't dance for toffee. But I am loving watching our TV series called 'Strictly Come Dancing' in which celebrities are taught to dance.